Wintergrass 2014 will have the guitar duo of Chris Eldridge and Julian Lage. Bluegrass fans will be familiar with Chris from his guitar playing with the Seldom Scene (Chris is the son of Ben Eldridge the banjo player in the Seldom Scene),The Infamous Stringdusters and The Punch Brothers. Eldridge earned a degree in music performance at Oberlin Conservatory and during that time he studied guitar with Tony Rice. Aside from his regular band commitments with his current band The Punch Brothers he has played with a variety of musicians including Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Paul Simon, John Paul Jones, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Jerry Douglas, Sara Watkins, Del McCoury among others.
Julian Lage is a guitarist whose release “Sounding Point” received a 2009 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Lage grew up in California and was the subject of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Jules at Eight” Julian also has played in a trio appearances with fiddle master Mark O’Connor (also collaborating with the violinist’s group, “Hot Swing”) and bass giant John Patitucci playing in the traditional Americana style. Lage’s recording debute was on Dawg Duos (1999), featuring David Grisman, Vassar Clements, Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck and more at age 11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLH7gk0sJfk Take alook at this clip of the duo performing the Seldom Scenes “Mean Mother Blues”
